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“To You, My God, May I Pour out a Lament” from Desert Songs

To you, my God, may I pour out a lament that I may empty the contents of my childish fears and repent of my mistaken tears That you are dear and your kingdom is always near to the bleeding of...

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“An Army of Faults” from Desert Songs

An army of faults has laid siege to the vaults of the treasure paid for with your most blessed blood which is the one continuous flood pouring forth in the center of my Eden watering each thought-seed in glorious gold...

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“Let My Soul Rest in Its Destination” from Desert Songs

Let my soul rest in its destination O garden of delights in which my best shines forth like a bright star or stands clear as an opaque moon amidst the darkness of midnight Soon is my departure for the foreign...

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“When it is loud, it wears a hammer” from Sanctus (self-published in 2007)

When it is loud, it wears a hammer & carves proud from the lips. one becomes two, I struggling to wear you, division, attrition, the grinding the traveling but never the arriving the Distance without the destination the Opposition &...

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“O Glorious Lord, Let Thy Holy Resistance be Adored” from Desert Songs

O Glorious Lord let thy holy resistance be adored How led by spirit into the desert sands that in your plans stands revealed the primary battle against the one true enemy whose defeat always lies preordained Though in Adam’s stain,...

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Tantum Ergo Sacramentum

O my sweet Beloved Lord and Savior that I greet in the daily bread, Instead of older forms you conform my body to yours, Through the meal divine you remind my faulty mind of things greater than conscious ploys or...

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Hymn to the Blessed Mother

Melody: Ewing 76.76 D O good sweet and true virgin, Who in thy humble way, Received God's great message On that glorious day, To your care Christ was given Your womb was an abode Now in delight and sweetness I...

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“O Mighty One” from Desert Songs

O Mighty One whose word swords shadows, O Glorious Cross whose nailed victory was preordained, And written to the wood, O blessed meadow, In which my being shall be forever contained, Sweet longing, sweet unity, sweet melting, sweet beloved So...

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“I have found my thirsting, and it has discovered me” from Desert Songs

I have found my thirsting, and it has discovered me, Songs of drought are gathering together in a symphony Stretching forth limitless and without restraint. And I have built so many walls that have been ruined Four of which have...